A parametric study of fear generalization to faces and Non-Face objects: Relationship to discrimination thresholds

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages 1-12

  Holt, Daphne J ^a,b   Boeke, Emily A ^a   Wolthusen, Rick P F ^a,c   Nasr, Shahin ^a   Milad, Mohammed R ^a,b   Tootell, Roger B H ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Faces; Fear; Generalization; Learning; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; SHOCK; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84933678884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00624     Document Type: Article

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